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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Derek on November 23, 2002, 12:41:51 AM

Title: Mailer-Daemon Failure Notice
Post by: Derek on November 23, 2002, 12:41:51 AM

Does anyone know if after you install the smtp rules.rpm if it stops spammer from bouncing email from the server
Want to know if i still lose bandwidth or not
cause i get about 5 failure notices per day
and want to stop them from coming and the bandwith these morons are using on my box

thanks

Title: Re: Mailer-Daemon Failure Notice
Post by: Derek on November 23, 2002, 12:43:25 AM

forgot to mention that these are also double bounced
thanks

Title: Re: Mailer-Daemon Failure Notice
Post by: Nate on November 23, 2002, 08:22:39 AM

Assuming the double bounce is because they try to spam a non-existant mailbox.  Yes it does.  The email is never accepted to the server.  When the spaming server contacts your server and says, hey I want to send an email from xxx to xxx, your server will respond, sorry I can't do that.  I finally installed the smtp rules on my box here a few days ago--it took some custom work because I run ezmlm mailing lists and those aren't added to the accepted list by default.